From: "Alex Hamilton", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I read an interesting article in an old copy of "Handloader" about
supplemental chambers for full bore rifles.
These chambers look like cartridge cases on the outside, but are made of
solid metal and bored to accept pistol cartridge that uses bullets close
to the groove size of the full bore rifle in which they are to be
fired.
Winchester made them from 1914 to 1924 in several popular 30 calibres
and also in .303 and they all used .32 Smith & Wesson or .32 Colt New
Police revolver cartridges.
Using these chambers would enable firing of rifles chambered for
7.62NATO and .303" on indoor ranges approved for pistol and gallery
rifles, so there might be interest in them on this side of the Atlantic
even though they did not survive in the States.
I would like to ask knowledgeable members of this list two questions, as
follows:-
1. Do these supplemental chambers require British proof?
2. Has anyone tried manufacturing them recently, preferably in UK and
who?
Any information would be most appreciated,
Thanks,
Alex
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I think Peter Jackson knows more than me on this one, as I recall
a chamber insert is considered to be a component part of
ammunition if it not permanently a part of the firearm, if
it is then it is a firearm component and must be proved and
you must have authority for it.
Steve.
Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org
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